Design Quotes - Page 28

• Designing a landscape is about connecting the body, soul and mind to the land itself.

  Kathryn Gustafson

  Garden, Land, Soul

  "A memorial to incompetence" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2005.

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• The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

  Dan Kiley

  Garden, Important

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• When I am designing, my aim is to create tension and then gradually proceed into quiet.

  Jacques Wirtz

  Garden, Quiet, Aim

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• In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wisdom, Art, Knowledge

  Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”

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• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  Fernando Flores

  Risk, Identity, Able

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• Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Bad Ass, Ideas, Space

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• We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

  Edward de Bono

  Judging, Judgement, Way

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• Is it too late to prevent us from self-destructing? No, for we have the capacity to design our own future, to take a lesson from living things around us and bring our values and actions in line with ecological necessity. But we must first realize that ecological and social and economic issues are all deeply intertwined. There can be no solution to one without a solution to the others.

  Jean-Michel Cousteau

  Future, Self, Issues

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• I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Truth, Flower

  Yukio Mishima (1966). “Death in Midsummer, and Other Stories”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reality, Differences, Hypocrisy

  Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.286, Yale University Press

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• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

  John Ruskin

  Vices, Virtue, Building

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

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• An ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Motivational, Compassion, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 22, 2013

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• Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

  Edward de Bono

  Inspirational, Education, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1982). “Lateral thinking for management: a handbook”

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• Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

  Robert Collier

  Death, New Beginnings, Simple

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fear, Doubt, Woven

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• A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

  William Bernbach

  People, Campaigns, Failing

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• If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Needs, Funny Science, Results

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Secret, Genius

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• Your culture is your brand.

  Tony Hsieh

  Marketing, Culture, Helpful

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues.

  John Flavel

  Wise, Religious, Blessed

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.4, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

  Jonathan Ive

  Apples, Alternatives, Making Money

  "Apple Story of the Day: Arise, Sir Jony Ive". www.computerworld.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Properly practiced creativity MUST result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.

  William Bernbach

  Creativity, Swamps, Accepted

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• Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

  Edward Tufte

  Data, Confusion, Understanding

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• A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Red

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